HYDRO ELECTRIC POWER PLANT

Activity:

1. Draw a neat sketch of a power house and describe the main features of sub-structure and
superstructure.
2. Describe the advantages and disadvantages of underground power stations compared with
overground power stations.
(a) What topographical and other conditions decide the setting of turbine either vertical or
horizontal in case of reaction turbine
(b) in case of Pelton wheel?
3. What do you understand by open flume setting? Draw the neat sketches of horizontal and vertical
open flume setting for reaction turbines. When the open flume setting is more preferable?
4. What are its disadvantages? Which factors are considered in deciding the setting of Pelton wheel
(a) in horizontal plane (b) in vertical plane. Discuss the advantages of one overt the other.
5. Discuss the differences between Pelton, Francis and Kaplan turbines and type of power plants
they are suitable. Why the inward flow reaction turbines have superseded the outward flow
turbines?
6. What do you understand by the term specific speed of a water turbine? What information
does it give and how it is made use in practice? Indicate how the form of a reaction turbine
depends upon “specific speed”.